The writer and theorist, who died this week, was instrumental in cracking open the white, western canon for Black artists. Author and cultural critic bell hooks poses for a portrait on December 16, ...

bell hooks died on Wednesday at the age of 69 Sam Gillette is a Staff Writer on the Human Interest team at PEOPLE. She first joined PEOPLE in 2016. "The one person who will never leave us, whom we ...

When bell hooks died on Dec. 15, 2021, it was a gut-punch. There was no time when hooks’ extraordinary writing and feminist and lesbian theorizing was not part of the queer community. There was no ...

Writer bell hooks, a prolific cultural critic, poet and scholar whose works explored issues of Black womanhood, Black masculinity and spirituality, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Kentucky. She ...

Prominent intellectual, professor, activist, and feminist bell hooks passed away this week from end-stage renal disease. She was a trailblazer in black feminist thought, publishing 40 books, receiving ...